12-04-2019, 09:14 PM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50660893
Instagram will ask new members to provide their date of birth when setting up an account, as it plans more "age-appropriate experiences".
The photo-sharing network already requires people to be at least 13 years old to create an account.
Asking for a date of birth would help the company to avoid targeting ads for age-restricted products at children, the Reuters news agency reported.
But Instagram said advertising was not behind the change.
"Asking for this information will help prevent underage people from joining Instagram, help us keep young people safer and enable more age-appropriate experiences overall," the company said in a blog post.
Hard to see this doing very much TBH, since anyone who doesn't want to reveal their age is going to lie about it anyway, and Instagram presumably won't do anything to stop that.
Though, the article does note that it may just end up being used to justify displaying more ads for things like alcohol... so, not exactly a child protection initiative!
Instagram will ask new members to provide their date of birth when setting up an account, as it plans more "age-appropriate experiences".
The photo-sharing network already requires people to be at least 13 years old to create an account.
Asking for a date of birth would help the company to avoid targeting ads for age-restricted products at children, the Reuters news agency reported.
But Instagram said advertising was not behind the change.
"Asking for this information will help prevent underage people from joining Instagram, help us keep young people safer and enable more age-appropriate experiences overall," the company said in a blog post.
Hard to see this doing very much TBH, since anyone who doesn't want to reveal their age is going to lie about it anyway, and Instagram presumably won't do anything to stop that.
Though, the article does note that it may just end up being used to justify displaying more ads for things like alcohol... so, not exactly a child protection initiative!
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